The Promise of Trinitarian Theology
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THE PROMISE OF TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY

Colin E. Gunton

Second Edition

T&T CLARK

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First edition copyright © T&T Clark Ltd, 1991

Second edition copyright © T&T Clark Ltd, 1997

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First published 1991

Second edition 1997

Reprinted 1999

This edition 2006

ISBN 0 567 08574 0

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

For

Daniel W. Hardy

Robert W. Jenson

Thomas F. Torrance

John D. Zizioulas

CONTENTS

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

1. TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY TODAY

I Where we stand: the situation of trinitarian theology

II Where we stand: the basis of trinitarian theology

III Where we stand: the contribution of history

IV Where we stand: the possibilities for trinitarian theology

2. THE QUESTION OF GOD IN THE MODERN WORLD: TRINITARIAN POSSIBILITIES

I One recent debate

II A second discussion

III A community of interest

IV One dialogue with modern culture

V The debate again

3. AUGUSTINE, THE TRINITY AND THE THEOLOGICAL CRISIS OF THE WEST

I The problem of the unknowability of God

II The problem of materiality

III Substance and persons

IV The trinitarian analogies

V The third person of the Trinity

4. THE COMMUNITY: THE TRINITY AND THE BEING OF THE CHURCH

I The drive towards monism

II The ‘heretical’ contribution

III Christ, the Spirit and the church

IV Towards an ontology of the church

V The visible community

5. THE CONCEPT OF THE PERSON: THE ONE, THE THREE AND THE MANY

I Persons and individuals

II The alternative tradition

III Theology and anthropology

IV Person and relation

V Two modern theologians of the person

6. THE HUMAN CREATION: TOWARDS A RENEWAL OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE IMAGO DEI

I Some problems of theological anthropology

II Cosmologies and anthropologies

III Space to be human: the Trinity

IV In the image of God

V Conclusion

7. IMMANENCE AND OTHERNESS: DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY AND HUMAN FREEDOM IN THE THEOLOGY OF ROBERT W. JENSON

I Freedom in the Reformation tradition

II The God of the gospel

III God, otherness and freedom

IV Conclusion

8. RELATION AND RELATIVITY: THE TRINITY AND THE CREATED WORLD

I Words and the world—again

II Outlines of a trinitarian theology of creation

III Some trinitarian concepts

IV Historical interlude

V Contingency, relation and energy

VI Conclusion

9. THE INDISPENSABLE GOD? THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD AND THE PROBLEM OF MODERN SOCIAL ORDER

I Religion today

II Society today

III What kind of Deity?

10. ATONEMENT AND THE PROJECT OF CREATION: AN INTERPRETATION OF COLOSSIANS 1:15–23

I To broaden the focus

II Creation as project...

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About The Promise of Trinitarian Theology

A brilliant and accessible introduction to Trinitarian thought. Colin Gunton argues that the theology of the Trinity has profound implications for all dimensions of human life. Central to his work is his argument that the doctrine should offer ways of articulating the being of God and of the world so that we may be better able to live before God and with each other.

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